BNED Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Barnes & Noble Education | NYSE:BNED)

Barnes & Noble Education Inc is a contract operator of physical and virtual bookstores for college and university campuses and K-12 institutions across the United States. The company is also a textbook wholesaler and inventory management hardware and software provider. It offers course materials through physical and online bookstores, including new and used print textbooks, rental options, digital textbooks, and publisher-hosted digital courseware. Products are also offered directly to students through Textbooks.com. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from the sale of products through its bookstore locations, including virtual bookstores, and the bookstore affiliated e-commerce websites.

Barnes & Noble Education trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol BNED.

As of January 22, 2026, BNED stock price climbed to $9.43 with 692,381 million shares trading.

BNED has a beta of 1.87, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. BNED has a correlation of 0.24 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BNED has a market cap of $321.13 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, BNED traded as high as $252.00 and as low as $5.90.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that BNED belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, VXF, IWN, VTWO.

BNED has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -14.0%, while the SPY ETF gained +15.5%. In the last 3 month period, BNED fell short of the market, returning +0.9%, while SPY returned +2.9%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks BNED has outperformed the stock market by returning +16.6%, while SPY returned -0.1%.

BNED support price is $8.68 and resistance is $9.36 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BNED shares will trade within this expected range on the day.